Nancy Dupree

Nancy Dupree
Nancy Dupree in May 2010 at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Nancy Hatch Duprée is the Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University in Afghanistan and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s. She is the wife of Louis Duprée, who was a renowned archaeologist and scholar of Afghan culture and history. The husband and wife team from the United States worked together for 15 years in Kabul, collecting as many works written about Afghanistan as they could. They have travelled all across the country to conduct archaeological excavations in their Land Rover truck.

Books

  • A Historical Guide to Afghanistan (1972)
  • An Historical Guide to Kabul
  • A Guide to the National Museum

References


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